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    The End of Internet Explorer for the Mac: The Non-Story of 2005?

    December 24th, 2005

    A lot of fuss was raised Monday about the impending end of support for Microsoft’s Mac version of Internet Explorer. However, the application really died a couple of years ago, and I suppose it’s taken a little extra time for some to notice. Now it wasn’t too many years ago that Microsoft owned the Mac […]


    The Case for GUI Inconsistency

    December 17th, 2005

    Years ago, while at the office, I installed a copy of ClickChange, an early Mac OS interface changer. But it didn’t just fiddle with scroll bars and window designs. It would add sounds to specific functions. Of course, it wasn’t the most stable beast in the jungle, and I had more crashes that first day […]


    The Apple/Intel Report: The Pressure Mounts

    December 17th, 2005

    Over the past six months, most of my columns have focused on the well-known positive aspects of Apple’s impending switch to Intel processors. But, no, I’m not being a cheerleader; I just want to take as realistic an approach as possible and clear up the confusion and misguided speculation. But there are land mines out […]


    Revisiting the Apple/Intel Connection

    November 26th, 2005

    When 2005 began, I doubt that many of you expected Apple would announce a switch to Intel processors by the middle of the year. At the time, the new products included a pair of product lines that Apple said it wouldn’t produce: The Mac mini and the iPod shuffle. So you knew from the get-go […]